Quotes from David Baldacci

People who believe themselves to be True patriots tend to be zealots. Zealots, in my opinion are one short step from being lunatics.

Sheep follow blindly. We're not supposed to be sheep.

My God, the whole world is collapsing. Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

if she was in a library.

You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't." "Great

The truth always matters

with the way the world is now, we all have to think about things beyond our lifetime. Beyond our children's lifetime, in fact. It's our right. It's our duty, my good friend told me.

when people stop believing in their institutions, the government often gets toppled.

john was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that

Decker looked behind him. 'That's nice.' 'What?' said Mars, looking too. 'Where the NAACP office was they built a public library. You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't.' 'Great, so let's get everybody in the world a library card.

It only matters, Devine, to you. But I would say this: Life is a long enough journey without having only negative motivations to get your ass out of bed every day. What I'm offering you is, once again, something

Life had coincidences. Serendipity abounded. Wrong place, wrong time. It came as the result of seven billion people jostling each other within the span of a single planet. But there was an unwritten rule in police work: There are no coincidences. All you needed was more in-depth investigation to show that there are no coincidences.

A pretty accurate rule of thumb is the people who did the most talk about it the least. The blowhards are the ones who did squat.

The Pullers sat there for a long time together, big, strong, and courageous men transformed back into two little boys by an old man's loving words that had come a lot later than they should have.

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

She'd heard that the author Margaret Mitchell had never lived in a place with more than one bedroom for a simple reason: She had never wanted houseguests.

Tazburg, Mise, Divine, South Ridge." He read the names off the

Triton has lost the use of the money while BankTrust sorts things out and

He guessed that was what the military was always fighting for, the rights and freedoms of the next generation.

had a way of looking one over without seeming to that any Secret Service agent would be proud of

Maybe that's how the world was now, thought Dan. Everyone was so wrapped up in his or her own little world that no one ever really saw anything anymore.

If Jackson had learned one thing over the years it was that nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved, because, in truth, most people were not above the lure of the dollar or other material entitlements.

If it doesn't make sense the way I'm thinking it through, it means I'm thinking it through wrong. But then what way is right? He

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